As AI increases demand for data centers, many will get built in dense metropolitan areas close to where people live and work.

Tech companies are turning to green concrete to help reduce the massive environmental footprint of building out data centers.

Data center backlash is so salient in Wisconsin — a perennial swing state — that even traditionally business-friendly Republicans in the Legislature are considering a suite of data center regulations.

The tech giant laid out a five-point plan to address backlash in communities around the country over AI infrastructure ...

And Meta isn’t the only company trying to convince the public to embrace the data center boom. The Financial Times reported ...

New data from FMI Corp., a Raleigh-based construction forecasting firm, shows spending on data center construction will climb 23% in 2026, even as office, hotel, apartment, ...

Data centers have been a big topic over the past few years, especially in Indiana. There's been a push for more data centers in the Midwest, specifically AI data centers. We've seen several move ...

Growth in the data center industry isn’t just expanding, it’s exploding. The number of U.S. data centers nearly quadrupled from 2010 to 2024, and demand is climbing with technologies like AI and cloud ...

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As demand for computing power soars nationwide, a Southern California entrepreneur with past legal troubles is trying to ...

Kyle Cranmer is the director of the Data Science Institute at UW-Madison. He joined WUWM’s Eddie Morales to give a data guy’s ...

Data centers have been a big topic across the nation over the past few years. There's been a push for more data centers in the Midwest, specifically AI data centers. In short, data centers are ...